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History 2000 Greeks C4 and C5 2024
History 2000 Greeks C4 and C5 2024
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Concern for the pursuit of truth is known as this...
Shouting, "liar, liar, pants on fire..."
Natural Philosophy
Epistemology
Skepticism
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Aristarchus of Samos proposed that the Universe...
centered upon the Earth.
centered around the Sun.
was a cylinder.
was flat.
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Hypatia wrote commentaries on the Almagest. She was murdered by...
her own father.
by fanatical Christians.
by fanatical Muslims.
pagans close to her.
4
Lyceum did not only collect data for scientific observation, but it also concerned itself with...
Studying mathematics.
studying crafts that examine technologies like hydraulics.
Greek tragedy.
The will of the Gods.
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Often credited as the first scientist, this Greek looked for rational explanation, not the divine, for natural causes:
Xenophanes
Aristotle
Thales
Plato
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This Greek calculated the circumference of the Earth within 311 miles: take that Columbus with your shady math...
Archimedes
Thales
Eratosthenes
Aristotle
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Lasting 2000 years, this Greek developed a scheme for primary elements: Earth, Air, Wind and Fire. Love and Strife.
Aristotle
Empedocle
Anaximenes
Thales
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Greeks invented not only philosophy, but they also created a new philosophy of nature called:
gymnasiums
Natural Philosophy
Science
Naturalism
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This Greek studied the law of buoyancy, as the story goes, and argued the sun was at the center of the universe
Zeno
Epicurus
Archimedes
Plato
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For both Classical and Hellenistic Greeks, the following were a problem for observing the universe, except:
Telescope
Stellar Parallax
Retrograde
Station
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Aristotle was called back to 343 BCE to tutor a young Alexander the Great:
Alexander
King Heiro
Master Glenn the Bald
Philip II of Macedone
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Like Dorn and McClellan, Glenn thinks that both science and technology are different pursuits in the ancient world.
True
False
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This Hellenistic Greek synthesized Epicycle, Eccentric and Equant Models to in his
Almagest
and cemented Aristotle's U:
Hero of Alexandria
Heraclides of Pontus
Apollonius of Perga
Claudius Ptolemy
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Aristotle started this school, where he and his students collected data on plants and stones.
The School of Miletus
The School of ROCK!
Lyceum
The School of Athens
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Archytas was a Pythagorian, who believed that this was important to understanding nature.
clouds
science
observation
mathematics
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These two elements returned to the Earth's center; while the other two elements moved towards the cosmos:
Water/Earth; Air/Ether
They all fell to the Center.
Water/Earth; Air/Fire
Fire/Earth; Air/Water